Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Dr Ali Ahmad has enjoined the youth in the country to take advantage of the not-too-young-to-run bill recently signed by President Muhammadu Buhari to prove they have the capacity to provide good governance and move the country to greater height.
Ali Ahmad who disclosed this in his key note address during a Public Lecture/Inter Varsity Debate organised by the National Association of Political Science Students, University of Ilorin Chapter noted that Youth in Nigeria had demonstrated to the world that they were hard working, innovative and full of intellect, going by the significant impacts they had made in all human endeavours across the globe.
Represented by the House Leader, Hon Hassan Oyeleke, the Speaker expressed confidence that Nigerian Youths can do more if government provides necessary framework and conducive environment.
He stressed that with the signing of the bill into law, the nation’s chances of attaining greatness in all human endeavour was high.
Dr. Ahmad was later bestowed with Award of Excellence by the student for the quality legislation of the Kwara Assembly under Ali Ahmad and also honoured with another award of excellence by the University of Ilorin Law Students Society
The awards, according to the President of the Political Science Association, Comrade Sultan Lawal, the awards were in recognition of the immense contributions of the Speaker and the 8th legislature under his watch to Parliamentary democracy in Nigeria.
The Association according to the President disclosed that the current legislature in the State had served as the best and pacesetter for other Houses of Assembly in Nigeria, going by the quality and courageous legislation, resolutions and interventions in the last three years of its existence.
He explained that it would be a great disservice if his Association failed to acknowledge the modest contributions of the current legislature.
